Cage Free Ministry
Free Range Priest helps ministers and congregations transform the administrative 'stuff' of ministry – the burdens of outdated systems -into the 'good stuff' - sharing the Good News of God's love with more people.
Embrace the digital age
break free of the 20th century organizational mindset
and rediscover the joy of ministry.
Church no longer works like it used to
Church needs to change. But how?We long for the good old days with plenty of kids in the Sunday school and young families eager to grow and build a community of faith.Those days are gone - for so many reasons that are not our fault.The organizational systems of the 20th century are no longer working today.It’s so easy to think...
if we just work harder
if we just do more
if we just try a new programthen things will change...But they don’t.We still feel energy for ministry - deepening our relationships with God and our neighbor.But we are overwhelmed with the ‘stuff’ we can’t keep up with: budgets and meetings and scheduling and maintenance…
It's time for re-imagination.
Free Range Priest is healthier ministry
Digital Transformation
Sustainable Part-time
Entrepreneurial Ministry
Church management software is for big churches, right?Learn to 'hack' the system for easier, more affordable church administration and transformation to become a place of spiritual journey and discovery.Designed with small churches in mind.
MOST clergy serve part-time.
MOST congregations struggle to afford ministry salaries.Get practical tools and skills to serve sustainably part-time.Sustainably = ministry congregations can afford in ways that clergy can still pay their bills.
Let's call it 'Creative Ministry'.Real ways to serve ministry - lay and ordained - beyond the walls of the congregation.How to spread Good News in new ways, sustainably.Everyone needs what we share - love. hope. forgiveness. peace.
Sign up for a 30 minute consult to talk about your cage free ministry!
Fr. Cathie Caimano
Yes, I go by 'Father' - but you can call me Cathie or just
your Free Range Priest.Like the chicken?
Lots of people ask me that - and I say yes!Because Free Range Priest ministry is still ministry -
it just tastes better.
It’s healthier and more sustainable.I started my own ministry in 2016 after serving 3 congregations and on a diocesan staff as an Episcopal priest.
I saw first hand
- in over 100 communities -
how the stress of institutional change and decline was making ministry harder.Things no longer worked the way they used to,
and we are afraid to lose our church - or our jobs.
It was sucking the joy out of sharing the Good News of God's love
out of serving our neighbor
and bringing hope to the world.
'There has to be a better way.'
That's the thought that prompted me to start
Free Range Priest.Because I believe there is a better way.It involves breaking free of the 20th century institutional mindset- not the Christian faith
- not the communities we loveand using creative thinking and digital tools to help build
new ways of sharing ministry.
No more 'Full -time lite'
Sustainable Part-time Ministry reimagines
clergy and congregations
serving together
from the ground up.
Sustainable Part-time Ministry
Ministers and congregations serve together creatively.
Part-time = 2 Sundays a month
Ministers not 'in charge'!
Digital and in-person ministry
Congregations stay as-is
Ministers don't have a church key!
Serve on task-based contract
Support lay ministry as a 'clergy consultant'
More Good News is shared by all
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